Maryland's highest court has reinstated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, who was freed after spending more than 20 years in prison fighting c

Adnan Syed's conviction reinstated in Serial podcast murder case

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2024-08-30 17:00:08

Maryland's highest court has reinstated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, who was freed after spending more than 20 years in prison fighting charges that he killed his ex-girlfriend.

The ruling marks yet another twist in the case made famous by the hit podcast Serial, as it now returns to a lower court for a new hearing.

Syed was cleared of all charges in 2022, after prosecutors said he had been wrongfully convicted of strangling and killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee.

But in March 2023, an appeals court reinstated his conviction after finding that the lower court had failed to give Young Lee, Ms Lee's brother, sufficient notice of the hearing that freed Syed.

In a 4-3 opinion, Maryland's Supreme Court on Friday upheld this decision, saying the lower court judge had “worked an injustice” by not giving Young Lee reasonable notice of the hearing.

The ruling means the case will be sent to a lower court for a new hearing on whether Syed's murder conviction should be thrown out.